Finland headlines

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft was set to appear at the Finnish qualifiers for this year’s International E-sports Federation. However, the tournament’s South Korean organisers deemed that females were not eligible to participate, prompting action from Blizzard and the Finland team. The rule has now been overturned.

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft will appear at Finnish eSports tournament IeSF World Championship, alongside other games. The catch is that entry was only open to men because its organisers want to promote gaming as a “legitimate sport.” The decision has since been overturned.

Only a week after Blizzard revealed Heroes of the Storm to be the new name of its contender to the MOBA throne (previously titled Blizzard DOTA and Blizzard All-Stars) a Finnish board game designer whose game “Myrskyn sankarit” translates to “Heroes of the Storm” has suggested Blizzard might have to change the game’s name one […]

Rovio CEO Mikael Hed has said the firm is considering moving its headquarters from Finland to Dublin in order to take advantage of Ireland’s 12.5% tax rate. Speaking with the Irish Times, Hed said the tax rate is a plus in the country’s favor, as Finland’s current rate is 24%. Currently, the firm employs a […]

Finnish developer Housemarque has confirmed it’s working on several new projects, as well as posting images of teams working away on said new titles on its blog. The studio released Super Stardust Delta for PS Vita and Furmins for iOS earlier this year.

Finnish dev 10tons has announced the release of puzzler Azkend 2, a lovely game that takes you on a Jules Verne-ish, match-three waltz through eight worlds of 19th Century mystery. It’s out for iOS, iOS HD, PC and Mac. If you’re not addicted and dreamy-eyed on ten minutes we’ll retreat beneath the waves for good, […]

The second part of our tour of the Finnish games industry, in which Patrick Garratt sees Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, travels from Helsinki to Tampere and tries to navigate a blizzard using a game on an ancient Nokia phone.